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Re:We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower by WillAdams on Friday July 04, 2025 @01:11PM (#44466211)
Time was that this sort of thing was covered in courses such as:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...

but they've since switched to Python for reasons:

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=2331

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Re:We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower by bee_rider on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:41PM (#44468916)
I think you can teach this sort of class, in Python. Just using the basic syntax of Python, which is essentially pseudocode. The main danger, I think, is that it would involve doing lots of things in a non-pythonic way, which could confuse the students if they went on to write Python for real.
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